November 30, 2012
Scores of hotel rooms paid for with public money for people displaced by Superstorm Sandy have been vacant for weeks. The Wall Street Journal says it reviewed documents that 120 rooms at the Milford Plaza Hotel in midtown-Manhattan haven’t been …
January 20, 2012
Investigators say a fire that destroyed an old, vacant hotel in northwestern Ohio was the result of arson. The blaze happened Sunday afternoon in Paulding, about 65 miles southwest of Toledo. No injuries were reported. The state fire marshal’s office …
November 30, 2011
The Detroit Fire Department says it responded to six suspicious fires at vacant homes on the city’s north side. Arson Unit Lt. Dennis Richardson told the Detroit Free Press that the first of four fires on one street was reported …
November 28, 2011
Las Vegas, Nev., fire officials say arson may be behind an early Thanksgiving morning fire that caused $20,000 in damages to a vacant house. Firefighters responded just after midnight to the blaze in the 4900 block of Glory Lane, near …
July 12, 2011
A fire at a vacant Providence duplex is being investigated as a probable arson. Deputy Assistant Chief Paul Thomas tells the Providence Journal that it appears some neighborhood children got into the building and started the fire, which was reported …